Our Story
Since 2005 we have been hand kniting Christmas stockings using patterns passed down from generations of stocking makers. Our work honors the legacy of our sister-knitters who can no longer make stockings; grandmothers, aunts and cherished family friends who made the Christmas stockings of your childhood. Carrying on the tradition of stocking making, we spend all spring and summer hand knitting each and every stocking from quality wool yarns then we personalized your stocking with care.
Since all of our Christmas stockings are knit the old fashion way, by hand, on needles we begin designing and knitting Christmas stockings in the early spring. By early summer we are working like Santa's elves knitting stockings every day so they are ready to ship in early winter when everyone else is just beginning to think about their Christmas stockings.
We have assembled what we believe to be our best collection of Christmas stockings yet. We have 48 different hand knitted Christmas stockings for you to choose from. All of our stockings are knit from the same red, green and white wool yarns and all our Christmas stockings point in the same direction - to the left (like an L) and they are all the same generous size. This means that you can mix and match any of our stockings for every member of your family.
Please note that we did increase the size of our Christmas stockings from 2013. While we loved those stockings (and our customers did too!) we felt like they needed to be bigger.
About our yarns
May 29, 2018·Written by Meredith Kubicki
Located high atop the Andes Mountains in the beautiful city of Salinas de Guaranda, Ecuador it's where each Christmas stocking we make begins.
Salinas, as it's known by the villagers, is a rather remote city named for its vast salt mines. The salt mines provided work for the people of Salinas for centuries, until the 1970's.
After so many years of mining, by the 1970's the salt became more and more difficult to extract. When the commercial mining operation that employed most of Salinas closed up, the village was faced with deep despair.
The people of Salinas refused to give up. They banded together in the and set out to build a solidarity economy. A solidarity economy is a values centered, alternative economy. It's a grassroots approach built by the people, for the people. In Salinas, this development model was used to create several cooperatively owned businesses. The villagers pooled their resources and worked to create family centered enterprises.
In 1974 a group of 15 women decided to capitalize on the wool produced by the sheep and llamas in the region that at the time, had no commercial destiny. They took the raw fiber and hand spun it into beautiful yards using traditional wooden dowels. Then they sold their yarns to villagers who would hand knit it into garments like sweaters and hats.
As time went on, demand grew for the high quality wool yarns produced in Salinas. In the 1980's they invested in commercial spinning equipment which allowed them to grow their business.
Today, more than 40 years later, the Salinas Intercomunal Spinning Mill makes the yarn for our stockings.
